Studio Design: The Panic Room II

The Panic Room II is the steroidial version of the original Panic Room
designed for Joe Don Rooney of Rascal Flatts. The initial primary consideration
of this basement level studio was that it had to be sonically isolated
from the master bedroom above.

Not only that but in its new incarnation,
large main monitors were to be flush mounted in the front wall as part
of a very powerful PhantomFocus
System™ One – Dual. CTD designed a
complex multi-layer ceiling structure using a custom barrier protocol
that allowed 110dB sound levels from 80Hz down to 17Hz to be barely
audible in the bedroom above.

A custom desk was designed to house a
new SSL AWS Plus console and a large array of outboard gear. The tracking
room with a high ceiling utilizes custom acoustic treatments along
with diffusive elements from Auralex and RPG. Two adjacent ISO booths
flank the tracking room and are separated by a glass wall.